Ethan glanced back at his ingredients at the question. What did they do..? Lots of different things, he supposed, but he was still trying to organize his thoughts on the specifics. "Well, the leeches are used for absorbing things.. um, either other ingredients or like the essence of something?" If that made sense.. He pushed his open journal towards the other boy. "These are some of the potions leeches are found in.." For each one the leeches pulled something out to make the potion effective.. like the Forgetfulness Potion, the leeches aiding in removing memory.

And about the rest.. oh, Alec had a daisy too? Well, that was okay.. they could just use seven ingredients since they had a duplicate. "The daisies, I think, have shrinking properties.. In the potions that I can recall off-hand that use daisy root, they are all used to make something smaller.." Well, in a sense regarding De-Aging..

"The chocolate frog and Mandrake leaves, I'm not completely sure.." He flipped through his book a bit. "I know I've seen them in potions, but I'm not sure how they relate to each other like the ones leeches are in and the ones daisies are in." Like those ones were related enough that he could determine the properties of the ingredients by that alone. "I'm thinking chocolate frogs are either just used for flavor or maybe something that has to do with the jumping qualities of the candy?" Or added some youthfulness.. wasn't that an ingredient in De-Aging potion too? "I know different parts of the Mandrake is used.. its used in a petrification antidote.. maybe it has antidotal properties? And its used in a hair-growing potion.." He trailed off, looking up at Alec. Did the boy have any idea about how to combine these.. or was he just overwhelming him with information?

He glanced over at the rest of Alec's ingredients as he spoke, a grin slowly forming on the Prefect's face. "Yes.. they are all found in healing potions.. that's brilliant." Oh, he could just hug the Hufflepuff boy right now, he was so pleased. He actually had the intuition to get ingredients that related to each other while Ethan had been a little more random. Maybe they could actually create something viable with this. "Alright.." he said after a moment's thought. "I think we should do some type of healing potion.. perhaps something that requires shrinking or the taking away of something?" You know, since they had daisies and leeches.. What did Alec think?